About The Auto Attendant - AT&T SB67118 Getting Started

Answering system

About the auto attendant

If you want your telephone base to automatically answer incoming calls for
your system, to announce the directory, and to enable your callers to record
central system messages, you need to customize Auto attendant setup (see
page X).
If the auto attendant is active and is answering or directing a call or playing
or recording an announcement or message, the LINE (1-4) light flashes
sequentially (page X). To interrupt the auto attendant, press the flashing
LINE (1-4) key to talk to the caller on that line, or press any other LINE (1-
4) key to disconnect this call and make a new call on another line.
An auto attendant assigned to a phone line can only answer one call at
a time, so you might want to have more than one auto attendant in your
system so that even when a call on one line is being answered, a second
auto attendant telephone can answer another ringing line. You can designate
up to 4 auto attendants in your system.
NOTES:
1. Only outside calls are answered by an auto attendant.
2. The auto attendant phone does not answer calls when the phone is being used for setup, message
review, call history review, or a phone call.
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